LANGLEY — It’s taken a full month, but after the 2020 cancelled campaign, the trends of 2021 have taken root and the front-runners in Varsity Letters’ Big 5 rankings for AA and AAA football have revealed themselves.Our annual Weekend Survival Guide has the latest rankings, scoreboard and upcoming games for Friday and Saturday.On Wednesday, we’re […]
High School
An afternoon for storytelling: Celebration of life for late basketball coaching legend Rich Goulet set for Nov. 7 in Pitt Meadows!
PITT MEADOWS — The storytellers will share as the B.C. basketball community comes together in just over one month’s time for a special event entitled ‘Celebrating the Wonderful Life of Richard ‘Rich’ Goulet’.Goulet, the longtime boys basketball coach at Pitt Meadows Secondary and St. Thomas More Collegiate, who passed away this past March at the […]
Varsity Letter’s B.C. High School Football Report 10.02.21 Saturday edition: Mt. Douglas and Belmont reach return victorious to Victoria at expense of Delta schools!
Saturday action wraps up another week in the world of B.C. High School Football.It was a day for Victoria’s two Triple A teams to flex their muscle, each getting wins on the Mainland.SATURDAYNo. 2 MT. DOUGLAS 40 at SEAQUAM 18NORTH DELTA — Kevin Phillips has been coaching B.C. senior varsity high school teams off and […]
Varsity Letters’ 10.01.21 ‘A day late, but not a dollar short’ edition of the Friday Night Lights’ B.C. High School Football Report!
Welcome to the one-day-later version of the B.C. High School Football Report’s Friday Nights Lights edition.Thanks to all for understanding my previously-scheduled engagement with UBC football. We are back to our normal schedule for the remainder of the season.And thanks this week to Varsity Letters’ kind photographic contributors: Blair Shier, Joanne Hewitt, Rick Macdonald and […]
Varsity Letters’ BCSSFA Player of the Week: For Centennial Centaurs’ running back Ziad Sabry, there is sweet joy in a comeback two years in the making!
COQUITLAM — When Ziad Sabry runs onto the field at Chilliwack’s Exhibition Stadium this Friday for a tough AAA East clash against the host G.W. Graham Grizzlies, he’ll no doubt smile to himself, so glad that two years ago, he decided to take endure the path less taken.Last week, in fact, almost two full years […]
Varsity Letters’ BCSSFA Player of the Week: For WJ Mouat Hawks’ receiver Ercy Avul, a breakout game comes with hard work, and assists from uncles Bo and Nelson Lokombo!
ABBOTSFORD: Ercy Avul has some pretty amazing football bloodlines, yet ask the W.J. Mouat Hawks’ senior receiver/safety about his uncles Boseko and Nelson Lokombo, and it’s as much or more what they have given him in terms of off-field advice than between the lines.“Nelson had to go through high school always being known as Bo’s […]
B.C. Boys Volleyball Rankings 2021: Kelowna Owls, fresh off UBC Invite title open at AAA No. 1, MEI Eagles and Abby Christian also open the re-start at No. 1
LANGLEY — The B.C. senior boys volleyball season,already underway underway the past three weeks, on Tuesday issued its first set of provincial rankings for the 2021 season, one which will be capped Dec. 1-4 when Kelowna and Okanagan Mission secondary schools play host to the provincial championships.The Kelowna Owls, who open 2021 at No. 1 […]
B.C. High School Football Weekend Survival Guide 09.28.21 edition: At AAA, it’s an Irish-Rams-Jugglers-Ravens-Grizz world, but there’s a new No. 1 at AA, plus complete schedules and scores!
LANGLEY — B.C. high school football’s first month of play is in the books.Welcome to the October, the month ahead which defines the contenders for the Subway Bowl B.C. championships.This week, Varsity Letter’s Weekend Survival Guide lays out the schedule for conference football at both tiers and in all divisions.We’ve got it all here, starting […]
Stars in their eyes! After two years of losing, Sullivan Heights football snaps its 0-for-21 streak with first win in program history!
SURREY — The Sullivan Heights Stars may have been in a state of total elation Saturday afternoon, yet even though it was a sporting rite of passage they as a group had never been able to experience before, they carried it off it the grandest of fashion.After the program’s first-ever varsity victory — 40-0 over […]
Fighting Irish vs. Knights: A traditional rivalry gets gleaming treatment! Fall high school football’s full spectacle comes to O’Hagan Field as 2,500 watch No. 1 Van College blank STM!
VANCOUVER — A three-game season-opening homestand at its own O’Hagan Field couldn’t have felt more like, well… home, sweet home for the defending B.C. AAA champion and No. 1-ranked Vancouver College Fighting Irish.Yet within the guts of a 32-0 win Saturday over one of its true traditional rivals, Burnaby’s St. Thomas More Knights, the Irish […]